Lot 883
PCGS GRADED MS 64 1804 HALF EAGLE. PCGS graded MS-64. We are proud to offer a small selection of choice to very choice uncirculated early half eagles. This particular piece boasts frosty bright yellow gold luster with very attractive surfaces. Scrutiny will note a few trivial hairlines, but few other signs of handling. One of the freshest and most desirable coins of this date, with only 5 graded this high by the combined services, and none graded higher.
There is a faint obverse die crack extending up through the 0 of the date into Liberty's hair. On the reverse, there is a rim break over the T of UNITED, and a sharp crack at the tops of UNI. Another faint break is seen from the rim through the arrow feathers, up the eagle's claw, shield lines, eagle's head just behind his eye into the field above. Another curious feature is a sharp die scratch where the engraver slipped, up from the left corner of the shield through star 12 to the eagle's beak. Such engraver's scratches are common on heraldic eagle coinage, but this is one of the longest and sharpest that we've seen on any die.
Estimated Value $30,000 - 40,000.
From Rarcoa's sale of June 1973, lot 171.
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